SS10.4.8.1
Recognizing military leaders from Alabama during the Civil War
Recognizing military leaders from Alabama during the Civil War
Recognizing military leaders from Alabama during the Civil War
Comparing roles of women on the home front and the battlefront during and after the Civil War
Explaining economic conditions as a result of the Civil War, including the collapse of the economic structure, destruction of the transportation infrastructure, and high casualty rates
Analyze political and economic issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction for their impact on various social groups.
Examples: political–military rule, presence of Freedmen’s Bureau, Alabama’s readmittance to the Union
economic–sharecropping, tenant farming, scarcity of goods and money
Interpreting the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Identifying African Americans who had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction in Alabama
Identifying major political parties in Alabama during Reconstruction
Analyze social and educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama.
Examples: social–implementation of the Plessey versus Ferguson separate but not equal“ court decision birth of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)__educational–establishment of normal schools and land-grant colleges such as Huntsville Normal School (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical [A&M] University) Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (Auburn University) Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University) Lincoln Normal School (Alabama State University)“
Explaining the development and changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of Populism
Explaining the Jim Crow laws
Identifying Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Describe the impact of World War I on Alabamians, including the migration of African Americans from Alabama to the North and West, utilization of Alabama’s military installations and training facilities, and increased production of goods for the war effort.
Recognizing Alabama participants in World War I, including Alabama’s 167th Regiment of the Rainbow Division
Identifying World War I technologies, including airplanes, machine guns, and chemical warfare
Explain the impact the 1920s and Great Depression had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama.
Examples: 1920s–increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services; overproduction of goods; stock market crash
Great Depression–overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs
Explaining how supply and demand impacted economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression
Describe the economic and social impact of World War II on Alabamians, including entry of women into the workforce, increase in job opportunities, rationing, utilization of Alabama’s military installations, military recruitment, the draft, and a rise in racial consciousness.
Recognizing Alabama participants in World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and women in the military
Justifying the strategic placement of military bases in Alabama, including Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan, and Craig Air Force Base
Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact on Alabama.
Recognizing important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy
Describing events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March
Explaining benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954
Using vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights
Identify major world events that influenced Alabama since 1950, including the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terrorism.
Determine the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Describing how technological advancements brought change to Alabamians, including the telephone; refrigerator; automobile; television; and wireless, Internet, and space technologies
Relating Alabama’s economy to the influence of foreign-based industry, including the automobile industry
Locate on a map physical features that impacted the exploration and settlement of the Americas, including ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, and significant mountain ranges.
Locating on a map states and capitals east of the Mississippi River
Identifying natural harbors in North America
Examples: Mobile, Boston, New York, New Orleans, Savannah (Alabama)
Identify causes and effects of early migration and settlement of North America.
Distinguish differences among major American Indian cultures in North America according to geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.
Locating on a map American Indian nations according to geographic region
Determine the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.